Safety-pocket



J. ROSENSTOOK.

Safety-Pocket.

Patented April 20,1880.

fizz/wafer: W6

N. PETERS, PHDTO-LITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES JOSEPH ROSENSTOOK, OF ELKO, NEVADA.

SAFETY- POCKET.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,678, dated April 20, 1880.

Application filed December 31, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH RosENs'rooK, of Elko, in the county of Elko and State of Nevada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets; and Ido hereby declare that the following is afull,

specification.

This invention has for its object to furnish a device to be fixed in the opening of the pocket in pantaloons and other garments for the purpose of preventing the articles therein from slipping out when the mouth or opening is turned down.

In consists in a' pad made of coarse wool or other fibrous and elastic material, which is sewed in the mouth of the pocket in such position as to permit the easy insertion of the hand, all of which will be hereinafter fullyxexplained, and more specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a pair of pantaloons with the front of the pocket broken away, showin gmyimprovementapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is aside viewof the same, showing the pocket in section; and Fig.3 shows the pad in detail of construction and the mode of applying it to the garment.

a is the garment, and a is the pocket, showing the pad fixed therein. bis the pad, which is made of long wool or other fibrous material, which, afterit has been compressed, will, after the pressure is removed, expand sufficiently to close the mouth of the pocket.

In localities where sheep producing long, coarse, hairy wool are raised the pad is readily formed by cutting it out of a pelt. The dry skin will be a back for the pad, which may be sewed into the garment; but Where pelts with long wool of the desired fiber cannot easily be obtained, it is sufficient to sew the long wool which may be purchased in the market onto a back of cloth or leather, or other suitable material.

In arranging the pad in the pocket the free ends of the fiber are best turned down into the pocket. When the hand is removed the free ends of the wool will extend across the pocket, and will prevent the articles from slipping past the pad.

This pad is durable. Th e wool will retain its elasticity as long as the garment lasts. The hand can as easily be inserted or withdrawn from the pocket as though the pad were not there.

In case one pad becomes unserviceable from any cause it can be replaced by another at verysmall cost.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

The combination, with the pocket of a garment, of a pad made of long Wool or other elastic fibrous material and sewed into the mouth of said pocket, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH ROSENSTOOK. NVitnesses S. S. SEARS,

S. G. WESTON. 

